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The Toolbox: From Idea to Launch in 10 Hours

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Re: The Toolbox: From Idea to Launch in 10 Hours

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When I finally got through to the WordPress admin, I immediately saw the problem: although the caching plugin was installed and activated, caching was turned off in the plugin’s settings page. Talk about a dumb mistake… There are a few free load testing services that are good for catching problems with caching or concurrency. I've used http://blitz.io/ before going live to tune my caching and have survived a few HN f…

Thanks for that, very handy!

Re: The Toolbox: From Idea to Launch in 10 Hours

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If you're looking for great themes, I recommend Orman Clark's work: http://www.themezilla.com/ The only problem for me was that his themes are not responsive.

Those look like Wordpress themes, though...my site is on Rails. Thanks for the suggestion nonetheless!

I often just rip the html from a Wordpress theme and use it for a rails site. Its a tiny bit of extra work, but totally worth it.

Re: The Toolbox: From Idea to Launch in 10 Hours

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Those look like Wordpress themes, though...my site is on Rails. Thanks for the suggestion nonetheless!

I often just rip the html from a Wordpress theme and use it for a rails site. Its a tiny bit of extra work, but totally worth it.

I've never bought a WP theme before - so it's not too hard to convert one for use in Rails? Just take the HTML, CSS, & JS and start putting it into the Rails structure? I'll seriously look into this option, then - thanks for the note.
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